“To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there’s more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of… Read More The Rich and The Poor
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Dedicated to Luisa and her new friend, Byron Byron was a Romeo From lady to lady he would go visiting each in her very own space before moving to the next lady’s place He’d snuggle and purr maybe taking a nap before moving on to the next lady’s lap His company…
Please scroll down for the English version All’inizio arrivò quasi in punta di piedi e si insinuò nelle nostre vite prima che ce ne accorgessimo.Poi divenne più prepotente e divelse ogni barriera rubandoci la serenità, la salute, ma soprattutto chi era nei nostri cuori.Smettemmo di cantare dai balconi come avevamo preso a fare per sentirci… Read More LA PANDEMIA
Please scroll down for the English version La nostra amica Eletta Senso autrice del blog Inchiostronerodenso questa volta ha proposto un Pangramma (gioco linguistico che consiste nella creazione di un testo di senso compiuto utilizzando in ordine tutte le lettere dell’alfabeto).Ecco la mia proposta: AmabilmenteBeatriceConvocòDanteEFavellòGarbatamente :HaiInventatoLinguaggiMagnificamenteNuovi.OraPoetaQueruloRiposatiSilente.TienitiUnaVoltaZitto Amabilmente Beatrice convocò Dante e favellò garbatamente: “ Hai… Read More Pangramma 🔤
“It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say.”Primo Levi: “The Drowned and the Saved” Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day in commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust,It was on 27 January 1945, that Soviet soldiers liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland) , the largest Nazi concentration and extermination… Read More International Holocaust Remembrance Day
I thank God for giving me another birthdayand for all the people who remembered me yesterday I thank for all the experience of this past year;for the times of joy, of sorrow and also of fear But what I am todaywouldn’t be the same in any other way I’ve added a few more pages to… Read More Passing Years
On 25 January 1533, Henry VIII of England secretly married Anne Boleyn.This was probably their second secret wedding, around the time Anne was beginning to suspect she was pregnant. The previous had probably taken place a little earlier, after their return from Calais where they had gone to solicit the support of the French king… Read More 25 January 1533 💒
American novelist, Edith Wharton, born on 24 January 1862, was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1921 for her novel “The Age of Innocence” In 1934, when she was seventy-two, she published her autobiography “A Backward Glance”. [I’ll be seventy-two tomorrow as well.]These are the introductory words: A FIRST WORD… Read More Edith Wharton on Ageing
Esattamente novant’anni fa, il 23 gennaio 1932 usciva il primo numero de “La Settimana Enigmistica”, uno dei periodici di enigmistica più diffusi e noti del nostro paese, che sulla testata alterna le seguenti diciture: “La rivista che vanta innumerevoli tentativi d’imitazione!”“La rivista di enigmistica prima per fondazione e per diffusione” Fu il risultato di una… Read More Novant’anni e non sentirli
Scroll down for English version GuidoAllora è così: oggi sono stato indotto in tentazione. Tutto è iniziato quando i miei compagni di collegio mi hanno sfidato a seguirli in una scorribanda sulla spiaggia alla fine delle lezioni.Avrei dovuto capire subito che stavamo contravvenendo alle regole intransigenti inculcateci dei nostri sacerdoti: il dito puntato dell’enorme statua di marmo… Read More La perdita dell’innocenza ✍🏻 (3)
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